Trains and liberty

Posted by | 8:41 AM
Here's Matt Yglesias being chock full of good points about transit policy : [T]he conservative discourse about mass transit simply illus...

The Temporary Decline and Non-Fall of the American Non-Empire

Posted by | 2:23 PM
Niall Ferguson is at it again , predicting the "downfall of the American empire": Niall Ferguson is candidly calling time on the A...

The brown people win (and you win, too)

Posted by | 7:31 AM
I remember, a few years back, driving through LA and listening to Michael Savage on the radio. He was declaring angrily that "the black...

Paul Otellini on Industrial Policy

Posted by | 12:43 AM
Intel CEO Paul Otellini : Other countries have focused on investing in innovation, creating national policies to build digital infrastructur...

Martin Wolf on China's exchange rate policy

Posted by | 6:23 PM
Martin Wolf : [China's] policy of keeping the exchange rate down is equivalent to an export subsidy and tariff, at a uniform rate – in o...

Epic Beard Man, race, violence, and American culture

Posted by | 8:16 AM
" Epic Beard Man ," the video that shows an old white guy delivering a beatdown to a black guy on an Oakland city bus, has quickly...

The continuing story of the 800-pound gorilla

Posted by | 7:39 AM
Apparently some among the Chinese leadership thought that once their country was the most powerful on Earth, all other countries would do wh...

Does government spending get flushed down a toilet?

Posted by | 8:37 PM
Greg Mankiw offers his thoughts on Obama's proposed bipartisan fiscal commission: [W]hat if you are [a] conservative [on the fiscal com...

U.S. government spending saves the world (again)

Posted by | 5:59 AM
From the government agency that brought you nuclear power, space travel, computers, and the internet: The brain trust of the Pentagon says...

I can has smrt kulcher?

Posted by | 11:16 AM
Ry forwards me the following chain email: Friends & Associates, Please meet Dr Starner Jones from Jackson , Mississippi...

The "sensible center" sours on China

Posted by | 6:54 AM
Robert Samuelson, as usual, gets some facts wrong in his most recent column about China (for instance, if the purpose of Chinese trade poli...

Texas vs. the future

Posted by | 7:48 AM
Bob Herbert has a decent column about how China is beating the U.S. in the race for solar energy . An excerpt: Way back in 1979, in the mids...